Los Angeles Gives Uber a Flat Tire

…stry while leaving another alone. However, the solution is not to regulate Uber. And the solution is definitely not to arrest Uber drivers! The solution should be to deregulate the taxi industry. Nick Sibilla, a writer at the Institute for Justice, points out that two years ago San Diego lifted its limit on taxi permits, which, thanks to artificial scarcity, could fetch upwards of $140,000 on the secondary market. In Orange County CA, Supervisor T… Continue reading

NYC Mayor de Blasio Takes Aim at Uber and the Free Market

…City government’s attack on the hugely successful personalized car rental company Uber illustrates — for the 10,932nd time — how untrue this is. Governments are supposed to protect citizens in only one way: to keep them free from violent and fraudulent criminals. Is Uber guilty of a crime? No. Nor is that the accusation. These politicians are undoubtedly protecting their cronies. They decry self-interest in Uber, and others, when they succeed at… Continue reading

Uber Debacle in Austin Shows Why We Need Free Markets

…ape or corporate BS—just people providing people a needed service.” HotAir.com comments: The free market abhors a vacuum and always moves rapidly to fill it. That seems to be the rule in play here and Arcade City is simply a symptom rather than a cause. This Facebook community has become the vehicle for former Uber drivers and other ride sharing enthusiasts to eliminate the middle man and go on providing rides outside of any sort of formal regulat… Continue reading

Uber vs. Small Town License Laws

…make — we own part of that, too.” Cab drivers and others who compete with Uber will complain that they get saddled with licenses, fees, and all kinds of requirements to ask permission to do business. Their complaints are valid. But the answer is not to saddle new companies like Uber with the same restrictions. The restrictions should be lifted off the cab companies. If it’s a “level playing field” you seek, then level it off by reducing or (best… Continue reading

Ruining Uber

…compassion for the taxi drivers, then you’d deregulate them — NOT regulate Uber. New York’s impairment of Uber and Lyft will do nothing to improve the lives of anyone. But it will ruin the efforts, success and independent jobs created by successful companies meeting the needs and demands of customers. Thank you for that, Comrade de Blasio. You, and the economically illiterate fools who keep electing people like you.   Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook…. Continue reading

Bernie Sanders Rides Uber…What Does This Tell Us About Anti-Capitalists?

…at Bernie Sanders will almost certainly not defeat Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination, and will almost certainly never be President. However, it’s a revealing contradiction not unique to Sanders. It seems that people who do not like capitalism, private property and profits in principle often seem to like and embrace its results, in practice. What else are we to assume? This speaks to the deeper contradiction within socialism, including… Continue reading

Rationality Returns to the Airports, Uber & Lyft — Thanks to Trump

…is over. Unfortunately, thanks to election fraud, we will soon have more Biden/Communist/fascist judges than ever. They will not quit hurting us, until we make them quit. ********* “Jen Psaki cries on podcast discussing Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ ban” [Daily Mail] Jen Psaki cries for 5-year-old transgenders. What about the future of ALL 5-year-olds under hyperinflation, rampant crime and the impoverishment of socialism? ********** “Whoever would ov… Continue reading

They Call Themselves Progressives … (Ludwig von Mises)

…nt to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.” ― Ludwig von Mises (economist), Bureaucracy     Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Charleston SC). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with Dr. Hurd on top… Continue reading

The Actual Definition of Inflation (von Mises)

…y to keep prices low while firmly committed to a policy of increasing the quantity of money that must necessarily make them soar. As long as this terminological confusion is not entirely wiped out, there cannot be any question of stopping inflation.” –Economist Ludwig von Mises       Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-fo… Continue reading

Capitalism Gets No Respect and No Thanks (von Mises)

…apitalism has brought this beverage to my breakfast table.” But when he reads in the papers that the government of Brazil has ordered part of the coffee crop destroyed, he does not say, “That is government for you”; he exclaims, “That is capitalism for you.” ― economist Ludwig von Mises, writing in Interventionism: An Economic Analysis   Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, re… Continue reading

“They Call Themselves Progressives” (Ludwig von Mises)

…nt to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.” — Ludwig von Mises, author of Human Action and Socialism, perhaps the greatest economist ever   Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and enga… Continue reading